Bring Down The Big Man | Detective

True Spies: Espionage | Investigation | Crime | Murder | Detective | Politics

SPYSCAPE

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

From London to Lagos, a web of corruption is spreading. At its center is James Ibori, AKA The Big Man - a Nigerian politician with a taste for the high life. Vanessa Kirby meets Jonathan Benton, the British detective who followed the trail of dirty cash that put Ibori behind bars. But when allegations of corruption were turned against Jonathan's team, he had to fight to ensure that justice was served. Could YOU bring down the Big Man - and keep him down, too? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producer: Gemma Newby. Produced by Claire Crofton. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	These are really powerful people who can draw on everything a stake can do.
0:39.6	They can bring in their security services, their spies,
0:42.4	they'll bring in their legal system, Attorney General.
0:45.8	They'll even get their cops to turn against us.
0:49.2	This is True Spies.
0:52.8	Episode 47.
0:54.4	Bring down the big man.
1:02.0	This is the story of taking down a bad man.
1:06.0	Even the truly powerful can fall eventually.
1:09.6	It's a story like no other story that had come before.
1:14.0	Nobody had ever taken a corrupt elite person who was massively powerful.
1:19.2	And it's told by the man who led the investigation against him.
1:24.4	Jonathan. Jonathan Benton. JB is what everybody calls me.
1:28.8	Our protagonist doesn't just share his initials with the world's most famous fictional spy.
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